Monday 16th a current affair 7.00pm, somebody not happy with car

seen a add for a current affair on channel 9 at 7.00 pm. looked like somebody not happy with a new beetle ,I am going to check it out:o:o:o

[ Edited on 15-10-2006 by rose ]

The chick with the dark blue cabriolet?
-Staggers.

yeah, I saw an ad for that too - NB Cab with a pissed-off chicky owner

for every brand of car there will always be someone pissed of with it. I get it every day at work.

Yep, happens all the time huh! Someone screams 'LEMON' because the CD player jumps or some sheit

Or they bought a new Citroen and cant find the button that makes it an ice skating robot.

Hahahahahahaaa

I must add to this rant that Frieghtliners are lemons.
If you can afford to fork out $300, 000 to buy a new prime mover, fork out a little more to buy a Kenworth, can't go wrong with a Kenworth powered by a C15!
-Staggers.

Hertz wrote:Or they bought a new Citroen and cant find the button that makes it an ice skating robot.

It's the red one in the glovebox:P

i think the owner of the falcon really wanted to make a statement



-Joel

I wouldn't bother watching that crap , media hyped up Bull Shit , they have trouble finding storys.
I just watch the ABC news instead, get enough brainwashing just from that.

Same reason I don't buy tabloid newspapers or glossy car magazines, full of completely useless info.

I would rather surf the web for porn than watch that rubbish.

ohh another 'QUALITY' piece of journalism coming right your way by the looks of it..
c'mon people wake up n smell the coffee..
sensationalised BS, you'd learn more by watch the neighbours dog laying steamy no. 2s around his yard..
honestly thats probably the headline story for the following night..
damn must stop giving that show such 'ground breaking' stories..
pfft.. talk to your kids instead.. more entertaining..

I'd rather make porn for the web

yeah or that too.. 😂

New story for ACA.
"VW owners are making their own webporn"

haha

ACA..:repuke
Rob...

www.thesuperficial.com


for all your useless trash.

Mind you if the chick bought her car from Austral moters VW she would have good reason to whine......

Volkswagenboy wrote:I must add to this rant that Frieghtliners are lemons.
If you can afford to fork out $300, 000 to buy a new prime mover, fork out a little more to buy a Kenworth, can't go wrong with a Kenworth powered by a C15!
-Staggers.

Good stuff B-man... I'll remember that next time I am in the market for a tractor unit! 😂

koolkarmakombi wrote:www.thesuperficial.com


for all your useless trash.

Mind you if the chick bought her car from Austral moters VW she would have good reason to whine......

I'm with you on this. Won't touch them with a barge pole. I even went to the sunshine coast to buy my new car so I didn't deal with them. Woouldn't le tthem lay a spanner on it either.

Yogie

Craig Torrens wrote:I'd rather make porn for the web

mental note to self... don't suf the web looking at porn just in case 🙂

o i missed it cause I was on the net surfing for porn:P

just saw that what a laugh

ok the dodgy roof yeah maybe the cars fault
unless she tried to see if it worked at 100km/h LOL
but nearly all the rest u can tell is just from rough treatment

i dont think they'd win VW dealership of the year tho

-Joel

It was nothing. Little more than a roof needing adjustment

Yes,
I just watched ACA...
a lot of faults for one car....
I have never found European cars as good as Japanese made cars....

thats why i buy New Mitsubishis....
at least i know i can go 200,000 without anything major going wrong...
and with a 5 year warranty etc... free roadside etc...

I believed there was a LEMON law for New cars....
and any NEW car that had enough faults was either swapped for another one or refunded....??
Seems there isn't ....
maybe never was.... ??
well how do i know there was a law ????
Maybe it never eventuated....??

and seeing that Australian made ford "LEMON" it doesn't cover Aussie made cars either....

Lee

VWCOOL wrote:It was nothing. Little more than a roof needing adjustment

Was the New beetle 2nd Hand when She bought it???
two years ago ??

I read on AVD today about someone with a new beetle and the electric windows didn't work...
same with the lemon beetle...
sometimes the roof didn't go up...
Still, its BAD publicity for VW in Australia...

Just remember that New Beetles are made in MEXICO...
as far as i know....??
and VW in the USA already has a bad name from selling Mexican made products....

and We all know that Mexican spares for early beetles are rubbish... thats if the parts fit at all...??

Lee

Lee

Mitsubishi is made in Australia ...........
Evo's are great but apart from those ummmmm🙁
some Mexico Parts are very good
I like those new Beetles they look to be very good Quality
unlike the new Mini etc looks very dodgy

Mitsubishi Australia only builds the 380. All the rest are imports.

I thik the lemon law exists in the US. A damn good idea. When you invest that much money you should be able to get it back if they cant fix it in one or two attempts.

Pffft new cars. I would rather buy a 20 plus year old car knowing I am entering into buying a car with faults and wear an tear problems etc. It is easy to live with. Like buying an old house. We like the characteristics of older items.

New things can tear your heart if you genuinley or misunderstandinly feel that all new things will be perfect. In varying degrees of course.

VW here in the US is a joke. Friend had a Jetta, took it to them as the immobiliser kept activating after the car started and it would cut out and that was it. Trucked it to the dealer, they sent her ignition assembly to Germany to get it 'reprogrammed', they fitted the car with a temporary ignition, but the problem was still there a day later...
They told her to keep the temp ignition and take the car somewhere else they didnt want to work on it anymore! They said they would post her ignition back to her once it returned... a couple of months away!!
Spoke to a few people at VW shows last week and they backed up my opinion on them.
This Jetta, a 2002 model in 60 000mi had 2 fuel pumps,an ignition coil/s, and now this. Pretty bad for a low milage 02 car I think...
What about the rivets from the diffs in transporters/golfs getting punched thru the bell housing/diff wall and emptying the gear box slowly... Saw that a few times back in oz! Quality, I think not...
The story of the cab may have been fancied up for the show, but the dealers and the cars definately have their issues.

after reading through the US NewBeetle forums over the past 2 years there is definitely a few common faults with them... the major complaint seems to be the electric windows not working, and i believe the common failure in the hardtop is the cable that drives the windows. The common failure in the cabrio is when the windows are supposed to drop a few inches as the door is opened to the first notch so the window clears the roof as the door is opened. We had this problem a few months after buying our cabrio... real risk of breaking the glass when opening and closing the doors if the window does not drop. The fix for this is to update the window regulators to the newer type - we had ours done and no probs for over 2 years.
Another major complaint is the roof operation. Seems some dont operate all the time. believe this is a fault with the positioning of the limit switches which tell the roof system where the roof is located. if the limit switches are not made then its like the roof has not moved its full travel. another complaint is the little wings which raise up to allow the rear supports to move forward or backwards on operation of the roof. fault is they stay up even when roof has moved full travel - they are meant to go down at the end of the roof travel. again i believe this is an issue with the limit switches.

We have not had any issues with our cabrio and due to this its going to be a keeper. :thumb